CONTENTS
Introduction: This Book Might Wreck Your Life xi
Part 1: Diving In
ONE • What’s Worth Wanting? 3
TWO • Where Are We Starting From? 18
Part 2: The Depths
THREE • Who Do We Answer To? 35
FOUR • How Does a Good Life Feel? 49
FIVE • What Should We Hope For? 62
SIX • How Should We Live? 77
Part 3: Bedrock
SEVEN • The Recipe Test 105
EIGHT • The Really Big Picture 126
Part 4: Facing the Limits
NINE • When We (Inevitably) Botch It 153
TEN • When Life Hurts . . . 172
ELEVEN • . . . And There’s No Fixing It 187
TWELVE • When It Ends 207
Part 5: Back to the Surface
THIRTEEN • It Turns Out We Have Some Work to Do 227
FOURTEEN • Change Is Hard 241
FIFTEEN • Making It Stick 259
Epilogue: What Matters Most 281
Acknowledgments 285
Notes 291
